Word: zestfulness
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...where the pound is steady, the sun is usually shining and the club goes on forever is perhaps essentially the daydream of a perennial expatriate; Wodehouse has spent two-thirds of his adult life in the U.S. But the author builds his country houses in the air with such zest, charm and comic invention that they are always worth the price of the tour...
...satisfy this need by "winning the affection and esteem of a young men they admire." But the young man is far less ready, says Dr. Binger, "for a real and rewarding relationship." For the girls, this leads to feelings of uncertainty and depression and a consequent loss of zest for academic work...
Last winter Sweden's beautiful, bouncy Princess Birgitta went to West Germany to improve her German and indulge her zest for sports. While in Munich, Birgitta, 23, who teaches gymnastics, met a young man ideally equipped to help her with both projects. A skilled gymnast himself, Germany's rugged Prince Johann Georg of Hohenzollern, 28, is mad for sports, will soon get his doctor's degree from the University of Munich in the fresh-air field of archaeology - which is also the lifelong hobby of Birgitta's grandfather, Sweden's King Gustaf. Later, invited...
...gird his partisan loins, 2) sashay, spear in hand, forth into battle on behalf of his own political beliefs, and 3) relate the whole struggle in uncompromising terms to the state of the nation. Last week, with decision day at hand, the pundits were performing with great zest...
...continued acceptance of deterrence as the basis of defense reflects a deep malaise from which, in varying forms and degrees, both the Western and Communist blocs suffer, Men who do not value their own or others' worth as individuals, who find life boring and sterile, may also lack the zest, inventiveness, and sense of solidarity that might unite them in a search for new approaches to the problem of survival...